Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tangible advantage Israel got out of the Sinai invasion was to open up its now bustling southernmost port of Elath to the sea, so that its ships could trade with East Africa and Asia while bypassing Nasser's Suez Canal. Invading Israeli armies, routing the Egyptians from the Sinai peninsula, spiked the Egyptian guns placed to menace any vessel seeking entrance from the Red Sea through the narrow, four-mile-wide Strait of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba and thence to Elath. Now the U.N. Emergency Force guards the strait and permits Israel "innocent passage" into the gulf...
This week, 21 months after Gamal Abdel Nasser's seizure of the Universal Suez Canal Co., the issue of compensating its owners approached settlement by due process of law and due pressure of power politics. Nasser was feeling the hurt of having $280 million in Egyptian assets frozen in the U.S. and Britain. Under the good offices of the World Bank, whose President Eugene Black himself flew to Cairo at the sticking point last month to press compromise on his friend Nasser, representatives of the old Canal Co. and the Egyptian government got together on a "general" financial agreement...
...State Department, pressing for an early settlement, let it be known that when it is reached, the U.S. plans to unfreeze $30 million in Egyptian assets blocked in the U.S. after Nasser grabbed the canal. The State Department insisted that the assets had been frozen only against the possibility that U.S. shippers, after paying Suez tolls to Egypt, might later learn that the tolls were legally owed to the old Suez...
...dispose of its surplus rice. Such countries often accuse the U.S. of damaging their economies by sales of its surpluses on the world market; less well known is the fact that Russia often puts the commodities it takes in trade right back on the market, as it did with Egyptian cotton, Turkish tobacco, Syrian wheat...
...original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! the sectarianism at Harvard may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free...